Planning for Maintenance
It is easy to get caught up in the excitement of learning and implementing a new security technology and disregard the ongoing maintenance issues that will eventually arise. Sooner or later you will have to update Snort signatures and write custom rules. New versions of Snort are released frequently, meaning the actual Snort application will have to be upgraded at some point. With all good chance, your Snort deployment will be productive, and additional intrusion detection capability will need to be requested at your organization. Incorporating these tasks into a maintenance plan ensures that your Snort IDS deployment will stay relevant as time progresses.
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